The artwork had been bought in the 1920s to cover a crack in Sue Magarey's great-grandmother's wall.
Sue Magarey said it was strange to visit the area she has seen depicted in a painting for 50 years
Sue Magarey, from Queensland, visited the spot near Elterwater after a Facebook appeal for help to locate the vista.Ms Magarey, 60, said it was strange to finally see the real landscape after "50 years of looking at a painting". "I always had in the back of my mind if I did visit England I'd love to go to the Lake District and see [the location]," she told BBC Radio Cumbria.This painting of the Lake District has been in Sue Magarey's family for generations
But she had assistance from people on Facebook after her friend Tania Devereux posted an appeal on a Lake District group to ask where the scene was."We took a stroll under the directions of all the lovely people and we did find it."It's strange to be in a real life place when you have been looking at a painting for 50 years.
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